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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 315

Assam, Rudra Simha (1696-1714), octagonal gold Half-Mohur, 5.61, undated, three-line legends on both sides with the usual border, Śri Śri/ Śiva Pada/ Parasya, rev. Śri Śri/ Rudra Si/mhasya (RB. F4.1; KM. 44), very fine, extremely rare

Rudra Simha succeeded his father in AD 1696 and straightaway made significant changes to the coinage: the inscriptions were Sanskrit rather than Ahom, and engraved in Assamese script, and the coins (apart from the half rupees) began to bear the actual date of striking, not a fixed date. The coins also bear a Shaivite invocation. Rupees and Half-Rupees of this reign are relatively common, but Quarter-Rupees are rare and gold coinage is extremely rare, being known from very few examples.

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